Grup d'allaus de la Universitat de Barcelona

 

 

Gloria Furdada Bellavista

·         Glòria Furdada Bellavista, born Barcelona, 1962. She is a lecturer at the Barcelona University.

·         In 1988 she collaborated with the Geological Survey of Catalonia organising the first network of snow cover observers for avalanche forecasting in Spain and began the first avalanche mapping on the Catalan Pyrenees.

·         Her PhD, in Geology, (Universitat de Barcelona, 1996, Estudi de les allaus al Pirineu occidental de Catalunya: predicció espacial i aplicacions de la cartografia) was related to avalanche mapping.

·         She collaborated in several EU and national avalanche research projects. At present she is the responsible of the organisation into a GIS of the Andorra Avalanche Cadastre by commission of the Andorra Government.

·         e-mail: gloria.furdadaAub.edu

 

Giorgi Khazaradze

·         Giorgi Khazaradze, born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1966, is a "Ramón y Cajal" investigator at the UB. Received his undergraduate degree as an "Engineer Geophysicist" from Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 1990.

·         In 1999 was awarded a Ph.D. title from the University of Washington in Seattle for his work on tectonic deformation in western Washington State from Global Positioning System measurements.

·         From 1999 to 2002 worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany, where his main work concentrated on studying present-day crustal deformation rates along the Andean convergent margin in South America.

·         In November 2002, joined the avalanche research group of the Universitat de Barcelona as a Scientific Investigator within the framework of the EU fundedproject: “SATSIE: Avalanche Studies and Model Validation in Europe”. Wasresponsible for the initial design and installation of seismic equipment at an experimental cite in Ryggfonn, Norway.

·         Since December 2003, he is a "Ramón y Cajal" investigator, dedicating hismain research to the quantification and interpretation of the present-day crustal deformation in the Betic Cordilleras and the eastern Pyrenees, with the aim of evaluating earthquake related hazard in these seismically most active areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Part-time he continues to be active in the SATSIE project.

·         e-mail: gkhazarAub.edu

·         http://www.geocities.com/gkhazar/

 

Emma Suriñach Cornet

·         Emma Suriñach Cornet, born Barcelona 1951 is a lecturer of Geophysics at the Barcelona University. PhD in Physics (Universidad Complutense of Madrid, 1981,"Numerical Inversion Methods to interpret deep seismic soundings").

·         The current research activity, initiated in 1993, is the study of the seismic signal generated by snow avalanches in order to better understand their dynamics and to improve their automatic detection.

·         She supervised of one of the PhD Thesis about avalanches carried out in the Department and is the supervisor of Berta Biescas PhD Thesis .She is also involved in the study of the deep crustal structure by means of gravity, magnetic and seismic methods and on subjects related to the evaluation of the crustal deformations in the SE of the Iberian Peninsula.

·         She is the responsible of the Satsie project for the Univeristy of Barcelona.

·         e-mail: emma.surinachAub.edu

 

Ignasi Vilajosana Guillén

·         Ignasi Vilajosana Guillén, born 9 February 1980, is a Ph.D student at the University of Barcelona.

·         He is a physicist and his research activity is centred on the studies of seismic signals produced by snow avalanches, with the aim to better understand the dynamics and improve the detection of this phenomena.

·         e-mail: vilajosanaAub.edu

 

 

 

Joan Manuel Vilaplana Fernandez

·         Joan Manuel Vilaplana Fernández, born Barcelona 1953. He is a lecturer of Geodynamics at the University of Barcelona. He has a PhD in Geology (Universitat de Barcelona, 1983).

·         He was one of the initiators of snow avalanche research in Spain. He is responsible for the avalanche group and the research projects carried out in the department.

·         He has supervised 3 PhD theses on snow and avalanches defended in the Department.